Boots Southerland
Known For: Acting
Biography
Boots Southerland (born Marlin Southerland, c. 1955, raised on a ranch in Manzanola, Colorado) is an American actor, stunt performer, and wrangler of 34 years in the film industry. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Flight Deck Aircraft Director on the USS Hancock (1964–1967, Vietnam) before moving to New Mexico in 1970, where he trained horses for stunt work — falling, rearing, and stagecoach driving — which led to his entry into the New Mexico film industry as a horse wrangler, stunt performer, and actor. He continues to work in all three capacities. His most notable film credits include a "managerial" victim in No Country for Old Men (2007, directed by the Coen Brothers, with Tommy Lee Jones), Marshal Fred White in Wyatt Earp (1994, with Kevin Costner), a Warden in Terminator Salvation (2009), US Marshal Keith in Sicario (2015), Marshall in Jane Got a Gun (2015, with Nicole Kidman and Jake Gyllenhaal), Outlaw (Buffalo Hunter) in Hostiles (2017, with Christian Bale), Sheriff in Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021, directed by Taylor Sheridan, with Angelina Jolie), and Sol in Dead Man's Hand (2023). On television he is best known as Wade Morrow in Yellowstone (2018–2020, 6 episodes, Paramount Network), with earlier credits in Lonesome Dove (1989, as Sergeant), Walker, Texas Ranger (1997–1999), The Magnificent Seven (1998), Preacher (2016), and Into the West (2005). He also did stunt work on The Hunger Games (2012) and served as a driver on Hell or High Water (2016) and Legion (2010).
Filmography
2021
- Those Who Wish Me Dead as Sheriff
- The Dead of Night as Ronnie
2018
- Yellowstone as Wade Morrow
- Woman Walks Ahead as Cab Driver NY
2017
- Just Getting Started as Tow Truck Driver
- Hostiles as Outlaw (Buffalo Hunter)
- Justice as Bartender
2016
- Preacher as Cooley's Bartender
- The Lost Pueblo as St. Isidore
2015
- Sicario as US Marshal Keith
- Jane Got a Gun as Marshall
2014
- After the Fall as Pawn Broker
- Don't Blink as Sherrif
2012
- The Hunger Games ... (Stunts)
2011
- Passion Play ... (Driver)
- This Must Be the Place as Truck Driver (as Boots Sutherland)
2009
- Terminator Salvation as Warden
- Doc West II : Triggerman as Nathan Mitchell
- Doc West as Nathan Mitchell
2007
- No Country for Old Men as "Managerial" Victim
- Seraphim Falls as Big Henchman
- Have Dreams, Will Travel as Truck Driver #2
2005
- Wildfire as Jake Smith
- North Country as Guy #2
2004
- Suspect Zero as Vic
2003
- Blind Horizon as Tom Brandt
- Deep Toad as Big Bob
2002
- Angels Don't Sleep Here as Bartender
2001
- The One as ER Security Guard
- The Journeyman as Doc
1998
- The Magnificent Seven as Scruffy Cowhand
- The Newton Boys as Wagon Driver
- The Staircase as Deputy Carlson
1997
- The Ride as Beer Tent Cowboy
1996
- Arli$$ as Soup Kitchen Recipient
- Dead Man's Walk as Glanton
1995
- Wild Bill as Crook-Eye Clark
- Buffalo Girls as Sergeant
1994
- Troublemakers as Sam Stone
- Wyatt Earp as Marshal Fred White
- The Getaway as Cab Driver
- The Desperate Trail as Scar Face Leader
- New Eden as Bik
1991
- Lucky Luke as Drunken Cowboy
- Brotherhood of the Gun as Deke (uncredited)
1989
- Lonesome Dove as Sergeant